First two thirds are good. Got a little slow for a second, but seems to be picking up.

Unless it's playing newer games, I don't get the appeal, but to it's credit, that is one gorgeous looking console.

When will Marvel put out a movie about space adventurers, dammit?

Would you call Lord of the Rings a Children's story though? That certainly meets all those elements.

He's one of the Indians.

Finishing up Dune. Next up, Horrorstör by Grady Hendrix.

Martin Landau was still alive in 2017?

That's my point. If anything that's a kids movie, but nobody ever calls it one. They just call it a fun movie.

Hitch:The Middle East

In what way though? What makes it a fairy tale? Is Dune a fairy tale? That's science fiction/fantasy that takes place featuring a 15 year old on another, fantastical planet. I don't get told that's a children's or even YA novel.

Here's the thing though, I wouldn't call something like Guardians of the Galaxy a children's movie. I realize that kids watch and love it, and that's awesome, but to me a children's movie is something that I as an adult would need to be convinced to watch. Maybe in 77 that would have been the case, but I don't think…

I think the real reason is that there was an idea in the 70's about what constituted a grown up movie. I wasn't born until 1980, so I can't prove anything but I would guess there were adults without children at the theater. But maybe I'm wrong. Maybe they were children movies within the context of that era.

I'm always confused as to how Star Wars movies are called "Children's movies." The series that features things like the mass extinction of a planet. One in where Han shoots Greedo first. Anakin slaughters children, slaughters people on the planet where his mother was kept, nearly chokes the mother of his children to…

It just never challenges your expectations. That's what I didn't like. I'm fine with nostalgia. But every plot point is exactly where you'd expect it to be. He's the first one to make a breakthrough. The bad guys offer a "We're not so different" compromise, but the hero is too pure to take that. Oh no, the competition…

This book was so dumb and formulaic. You can figure out the arc of the story from the first page, and all the beats are perfectly timed to your expectations. And the protagonist is the most conveniently brilliant person who just happens to know the answer exactly when it's convenient for the story. It reads like an…

I looked him up. Can confirm.

That'd be something that would bring me back to the show. Have a doctor who keeps on losing for a while. Disasters not averted. Companions killed due to cruel fate. Have one who comes up with brilliant solutions but can't catch a break.

I'm binge watching Fargo.
Did you guys know Fargo is really good?

Sober would be tough. Drugs help. I'm not the biggest fan, but they really have designed their show to be optimal if you are on ecstasy or acid, which are easily attainable at the shows. You might say everything is good on ecstasy, and you'd be correct, but…well this is also a thing, so it's good on ecstasy as well.…

I don't want to give the wrong impression. My friends aren't pushy about it at all, and I'm not being dragged by any means. I just don't seek out Phish, which makes me wildly different from 98% of the other people in the crowd.